I just want to get the holidays off my back

I just ordered contacts online and I have no idea if I did it correctly. I’ll either get a bunch of contacts for my left eye only, or I won’t get anything at all because I managed to enter something incorrectly. It’s supposed to be convenient, this online shopping. We’ll see.

I’m also in the process of hunting down a Nintendo Wii for Dave. It’s his very belated Christmas present. I knew the Wii was a big deal, but I didn’t know just how big it was. Two Sundays before Christmas I crawled out of bed at 5:30 a.m. and went to Target thinking I’d beat the crowd. After driving past the store and seeing the line dissipate, as the vouchers had already been handed out, I headed to Best Buy and waited in line as Customer #150. Obviously, I went home empty handed.

Comatose from holiday festivities, I took a break from the search and began calling stores this week. Turns out a lot of stores got a shipment last week and won’t get another for a while, or so they say. I’ve learned a lot from this experience. People are greedy, store employees are rude, I despise consumerism and still play a part in it, and I’ll go to greater lengths than imagined to make my guy happy. I mean, I used to think it would take an act of God to get me out of bed at 5:30 on a weekend.

I hear you’re supposed to be careful with the Wii. Dave might actually punch a kitten in the face while swinging his arms to get past the black dragon on level 8. And then you’ll both be arrested for animal cruelty.